The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-03-24


At the same meeting resolution wa
passed emphasizing the necessity o
sacrificiny all other party affiliations o
party interests" and this resolve wa
made unanimous, so that it must hav,
included the gentleman who ably discus
sed the platform.
! suppose il would be logical to infe
that during the period you were standing
in with a Greenback Club, celebrating
their platform, and resolving yoursel
away from every other party utilization
that you were defdcto and dGure outside
the democratic party. But now you
have been resurrected into democracy
and you doubtless repudiate that por
ton of greenbSc kism that would put you
at issue with your party.
As joined the greenback ism" in
Kansas over ten years ago, and thus os
tracised myself from the republican par
ty, and never went back, but became
classed with lthe assistant democrats
whose sole motive, it is changed, is to
break up the republican party; az | re-
call my unpropitious party alignments, |
can but feel impressed with the extreme
felicity of the presto change made by
yourself in being grated again upon the
true vine.
am in ignorance rs to your meaning
when you speak of my writing the reso'
lutions of the Waco convention. For
was not in any situation that called
uDon me to write resolutions;
recollect Of writing none; there
were none passed by the convention that
| recollect Of; and there were many men
there much ADLER and better qualified
than myself to write such resolutions
as might have been pertinent to the &C.
casion.
cad. As to the bloody shirt permit ne,
as very humble citizen of the State of
Texas, to talk with you moment on the
square. You have no hostility against
me individually. am aware of that. You
wanted bigger game than mere religio-
political temperance pett-fogger, such
as am, at best You wanted an issue.
You wanted to terve the rum power as
your lucrative client by forcing pre-
text to wave the bloody shirt before such
Jealous Texans as could be Infatuated by
tossing the crimson garment before their
eyes. In order to get this issue brewing
you have conspired to lift me to public
notice, emblazon me as Kansas man, a
man Of 'isms," of fanaticism, OF North.
ern proclivitics, of hostile instincts, OF
sympathies. For this pur-
pose you and your organs parade me as
prohibition leader, and such like. Then
you will go to the unsophisticaed, wave
the bloody shirt, and arouse all the fe-
rocity, fanaticism ana passion of ante
bellum days. My friend, you are foiled!
hold four aces and the Jack on the play.
| am no leader, and don't propose to be
a leader in any sense. The school boy
that was charged with whistling said he
didn't whistle, ut whistled itself" Such
work as do is done quite spontaneously.
am no captain, colonel or governor;
just fighting on my own hook. General
Gano and others are leaders here, and l
them as such; and | recognize
B. ii. Carroll, of Waco, as the lofty soul
and inspiring agency in the whole move
ment
spent several years Of the war period
among Southern people, and know how
10 Judge both sides Of that unfortunate
family quarrel. feel the same venera.
ton for the prayers Of Stonewall Jack
son, that inspired him with the proves
Of heavenly avenger. as | do for those
Of Abraham Lincoln, that made him the
presiding genius of our country's destiny.
sympathize with the martial valor OF
the Grays. as they surged on to homeless
graves, as also with the patient courage
that led the paticnt Blues to water with
their blood the fertile fields of the Sunny
South. treasure up the brave Of both
sides in one grand mausoleum of human
valor. But wave from me all those
bloody orgies of internecine strife, as
nightmare dreams, that stlfle the free
soul of great brotherhood; and
deprecate every attempt to
fan those embers into a demoniacsl life.